It has been reported that you are going to lay off 6,400 teachers. If the city does not have enough money to keep teachers, why did each school recently hire an administrative assistant?

The principal and assistant principal have office staff that writes letters and does clerical work in addition to answering the phones (but not so much any more because each school spent money on an automated phone system to alert me when my child needs to send in picture money or wear a certain color).

It seems that the money could be spent a lot better by keeping teachers in the classrooms. If you lay off the teachers, the class sizes will get larger there by reducing the quality of education. Rather than add administrative staff, let’s keep teachers in the classroom. This is a far better choice on how to spend my tax dollars.